The British Conservatives' Battle
Matthew d’Ancona is an award-winning political columnist and is writing a History of England with John Cleese. He did not go to Eton.
David Cameron is poised to lead the UK's Conservatives to victory over Gordon Brown's ailing Labour Party. Unless Cameron's rivalry with London's mayor gets in the way.
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With In the Loop, British director Armando Iannucci has created the decade's defining political critique. He spoke with The Daily Beast about spinning the news, journalist intimidation, and channeling Rumsfeld.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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